Fluvial response to paleo-equatorial climate fluctuations during the late Paleozoic ice age

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1524-1538

  Allen, Jonathan P ^a   Fielding, Christopher R ^a   Gibling, Martin R ^b   Rygel, Michael C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EQUATORIAL CLIMATE; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; LATE PALEOZOIC ICE AGE; PRECIPITATION AND RUNOFF; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

FLUVIAL PROCESS; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIATION; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOZOIC; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEMIARID REGION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW;

CANADA;

EID: 79959294536     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30314.1     Document Type: Article

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